Arts & Culture
Explore Harvard’s vibrant arts scene—from campus exhibitions and theater to cultural analysis and literary reviews. Discover how creativity shapes the Harvard experience.
Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Honors Rose Byrne
The Bridesmaids actress celebrated her 2026 Woman of the Year Award with a roast and a parade.
Harvard honors eight including Oprah Winfrey with W.E.B Du Bois Medal
The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.
by Laura Levis
“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard
Historian Geoffrey Ward provides a Crimson backdrop for the new Ken Burns miniseries.
Bill Haney's documentaries with social conscience
Bill Haney makes documentary films that probe social issues.
by Laura Levis
Finding Neverland at Harvard's American Repertory Theater
The ART launches a sumptuous world premiere of Finding Neverland
A Far Cry performs at the Gardner Museum
Boston’s chamber orchestra A Far Cry merges genres at the Gardner Museum.
"Finding Neverland" at the ART recasts the story of Peter Pan and J.M. Barrie
The new musical Finding Neverland at the American Repertory Theater once again revives the myth of Peter Pan and his creator, J.M. Barrie.
“Legally Blonde” composer-lyricists Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe profiled
Musicals by Benjamin and O’Keefe excite Broadway.
Music and medicine converge at Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.
Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88
The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.
John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” at Met prompts new controversy
The Metropolitan Opera cancelled plans to broadcast the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, by John Adams.